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extruder stepper issue
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:18 pm
by ish311
I tried searching and can't find anything about my particular issue so i shall ask.
my stepper motor for my extruder does exactly nothing..... no twitch no dance has continuity and the XYZ motors work fine. it's plugged into the far right socket on the RAMBO.
they are the kyo...whatever ones and i adjusted the programming in the arduino. set the stepper at 160.
Re: extruder stepper issue
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:49 pm
by mvansomeren
ish311 wrote:I tried searching and can't find anything about my particular issue so i shall ask.
my stepper motor for my extruder does exactly nothing..... no twitch no dance has continuity and the XYZ motors work fine. it's plugged into the far right socket on the RAMBO.
they are the kyo...whatever ones and i adjusted the programming in the arduino. set the stepper at 160.
Did you heat up the hot end? Stepper for the extruder won't work until the hot end reaches a specific temp.
Re: extruder stepper issue
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:50 pm
by ish311
tried at both 190c and 200c and still did nothing
forgot to mention i'm using the Mac client of mattercontrol
will get out the multimeter again tommorow and recheck the continuity but i saw elsewhere that the instructions for rewiring the stepper my not have the right configuration. but that also mentioned having jittery motors then
Re: extruder stepper issue
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:04 pm
by KAS
For a quick wiring test you can plug the extruder into one of the XYZ ports to see if you get any movement when you home all. just hover the power button in case it does something crazy.
Re: extruder stepper issue
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:27 am
by Earthbound
ish311 wrote:I tried searching and can't find anything about my particular issue so i shall ask.
my stepper motor for my extruder does exactly nothing..... no twitch no dance has continuity and the XYZ motors work fine. it's plugged into the far right socket on the RAMBO.
they are the kyo...whatever ones and i adjusted the programming in the arduino. set the stepper at 160.
Look at page 194 of the V2 2nd Edition manual. The far right socket (next to the mounting screw) should be empty. The sockets are X, Y, Z, Z, E0, E1. Your extruder should be plugged in one socket to the left of far right.
Re: extruder stepper issue
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 7:41 am
by ish311
Well that fixed it... now i feel like an idiot for not looking at that again.
Thank you very much for your help.